Link for clothes or harness



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A. G. PAIVRE.

LINK FOR CLOTHES 0R HARNESS. v No. 312,105. Patented Feb. 10, 1885.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXISE C. FAIVRE, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

LINK FOR CLOTHES OR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,105, dated February 10, 1885.

Application filed December 10, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXISE (J. FAIVRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Link for Clothes, Harness, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to supply the place of button, buckle, hook, pin, or other fastener in a quick, safe, and substantial manner, to be used either as a temporary expedient or, in many cases, for permanent wear.

To make my link I take wire of such size as will be proper for the service required, and bend it as seen in the drawings.

Figures 1 and 3 are made of one piece. Fig. 2 is hinged at the ends of the link, so that one or both ends may be thrown back, as seen by the dotted lines. The object of this is to use the link where the partscannot be brought closer together than the ends of the link which unites them. Fig. 3 shows a coiled spring, 0, which reaches from the shoulder A to the shoulder B, but so made that it can be depressed against A, so as to liberate the point D, or against B, so as to release the point E. (See Figs. 1, 2, and 4..) E and D when not depressed will stand about as seen in Fig. 4, to be compressed by the finger to enter the spring 0.

(No model Operation: WVhen two parts are to be united by this link, the coil 0 is compressed against shoulder A till point D springs out so it can be thrust through one side of the article to be linked; then point Dis depressed, so that the spring 0 will slip over it,where it can hang in safety till it is desired to link the point E, which is done by compressing spring 0 against shoulder B till point E is liberated and thrust through the article so linked. Then point E is depressed till spring 0 can spring over it, when the clasping of the parts is complete.

I do not confine myself to any particular shape of link. Both ends may be alike, or the shoulder that confines the coil may be on one side only. (See Fig. 5.)

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The clasp herein described,consisting of the link bent to form end loops depressed to form the shoulders A B, pointed at E D, and provided with the coiled spring C,.for covering the points, substantially as described.

ALEXTSE G. FAIVRE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. ADAMS, Burns G. ADAMS. 

